On 9 Apr 2012, at 19:23, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 07:15:50PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: >> That's what we would rather happened to them, but they do need to leave our >> data centre; we're close to our power limits, and we could run quite a lot >> of stuff on the power those Alphas use. :-) >> >> Goetz was one of the two official buildd machines when for lenny, so I know >> it's up to the job... > > How much power does an ES45 use? Just curious. Obviously a lot more > than my PWS433.
Our data centre manager told me the following: > These ES45's have 3 psu's, and they require 3 x single phase feeds, one > to each psu. > With 3 psu's the server config becomes n+1. > HP suggest 16amp supply per psu, the usual standard, which is more than > adequate. > > One day many moons ago, when one of ours was in full flight, we measured > 1 + 1.5 + 1 amps. > 3.5 amps in total, approx 800 Watts. > > > I'm sure you have been here: > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10994_na/10994_na.html > > HP say that in normal conditions the consumption is approx 980 Watts, > which equates to 4.25 amps. > That's not far away from what we saw, and ours wouldn't have had all of > the io slots filled up etc... > > HP then suggest 5.7amps total for a fully populated server going flat > out - well that won't happen, something will break first! Hope that helps! Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
